LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture 5: LINGUIST 1AA3_Week 5

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1A03
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

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***don"t use triangles in diagrams professor uses them to save space*** A phrase is sister to head, daughter to bar level. Sister to the bar level and daughter to the bar level. Recursion : contains another node of the same type. Could go on forever; you could have an x bar node to an adjunct, repeat, repeat, repeat . They add the extra information ( when, where, why, how ) She bought a lovely vase at an antique store. She bought a carton of eggs at the farmer"s market. Move the phrase elsewhere in the sentence; The kids played frisbee in front of bsb with their friends. The kids played frisbee with their friends in front of bsb. Move the phrase elsewhere in the sentence. Insert a complement phrase next to the head. Faruq accidentally stubbed his toe in the dark room. Subcategories group words within categories according to behaviour.